We traveled down to Marfa, Texas for four days in early September to shoot
a story for my new line of bags ( plus skirt and apron) for the new website and
catalog. Marfa is an incredible tiny town out on the plains of West Texas which
defies explanation - you actually just have to go there to understand the allure.
Part of the adventure was staying at the Thunderbird Hotel, shopping at the
Get Go, eating at the Food Shark, and visiting Chinati, home of Donald Judd
and Dan Flaven installations.
our multi-talented crew: photographer Peter Ogilvie, and assistant Bill Stengel,
stylists Lisa Neimeth and Char Vazquez - location scout Susan Bell, and
model and singer Kirstiann Bushman with boyfriend David Loughridge
(as her boyfriend in our story). Support staff was Cynthia Jones Stengel and
two month old Chloe. Our photo line-up is in front of a mural at the Riata
bar in Alpine Texas - Marfa and Alpine were the location for the 1956 movie
Giant starring James Dean, so artfully portrayed on his horse in this mural!
